Learn how to use one of the most up-to-date face detection algorithms used by Facebook and Twitter

This course is about the fundamental concept of image recognition, focusing on face detection. These topic is getting very hot nowadays because these learning algorithms can be used in several fields from software engineering to crime investigation.

We will talk about the theoretical background for face recognition algorithm then we are going to implement these problems together.

The first chapter is about static face detection: at the end of the chapter we will be able to construct applications capable of detecting faces on static images or pictures. In the second chapter we will consider a real-time problem: how to be able to detect faces in real-time, for example on webcamera videos.